Here are the Comments of EPIC urging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to dump their Automated Targeting System, which creates risk-assessment profiles on individuals based on race, ethnicity, gender, and other factors.

The Wall Street Journal confirms that yes, Your E-Book is Reading You. The WSJ also scooped all other outlets in reporting on The FBI’s Secret Surveillance Letters to Tech Companies. These national security letters bypass judges and instruct companies to turn over financial and internet data, while also telling companies they cannot talk about the existence of the national security letter. That latter bit of Alice in Wonderland-ery has, according to the WSJ post, been changed, and the gag orders are no longer automatic. The FBI has not, however, told that to companies, which continue to refuse to talk about the letters because they have no reason to believe they’re no longer under gag order.

Following Obama’s non-executive order regarding DREAMer youth, the attorneys at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center put together this Practice Advisory for Criminal Defenders, highlighting the fact that young people with certain (as of yet not clearly delineated) criminal convictions are not eligible for deferred action and work authorization.

This report onCounterterrorism Intelligence: Fusion Center Perspectives asks how fusion centers bureaucrats “view the terror threat, the efficacy of their centers, and the role fusion centers play in the intelligence enterprise.” Of note: 63% list law enforcement as their center’s most important function, compared to 28% that identify counterterrorism as their center’s most important function.

A good article in the New York Times about how Probation Fees Multiply for Poor as Companies Profit. Private probation companies in Alabama and Georgia are not an anomaly – to the contrary, their business model perfected in criminal justice has and will migrate to immigration enforcement and low level surveillance in the name of national security.